Epic Games unveils the Unreal Engine 5, coming in 2021, with a PlayStation 5 demo and says the Epic Online Services tools are available today
Hello, and welcome to The Edge, the newsletter … Marshall Honorof / Tom's Guide : PS5 already beats gaming PCs with this key feature Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Latest updates on PS5: Launch is still on track for late 2020 Engadget : The Morning After: Watch the Unreal 5 engine running on a PlayStation 5 Alessio Palumbo / Wccftech : Epic Worked ‘Super-Closely’ with Sony on PS5 for a Long Time, It's Been a Primary Focus - Sweeney Matt Kim / IGN : Unreal Engine 5 Announced With Gorgeous PS5 Demo Olivia Harris / GameSpot : Epic Is Making Cross-Play More Feasible With Epic Online Services Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : Epic Games teases its new, nearly-photorealistic Unreal Engine 5 Cian Maher / VG247 : “The world of loading screens is over,” says Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg : Sony Warns Profit May Fall 30% or More in Fiscal Year Morning Brew : Europe's Operation Fanny Pack Is a Go Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : Epic Games demos Unreal Engine 5, will bring development tools to macOS, iOS, among other platforms Derek Strickland / TweakTown News : PlayStation 5 Unreal Engine 5 demo ran at 1440p 30FPS with dynamic res Michelle Ehrhardt / Tom's Hardware : AMD-Powered PS5 Demo Puts Your PC to Shame Hayden Dingman / PCWorld : Epic's Unreal Engine 5 demo looks stunning, and how the new graphics work is just as important Craig Wilson / Input : This demo of the new Unreal Engine on the PlayStation 5 is mind-blowing Tweets: Phil Spencer / @xboxp3 : Incredible work by the team at Epic @UnrealEngine, many of our XGS studios are using Unreal, like the team at Ninja Theory creating Hellblade II, and are excited to bring these UE5 innovations to life on Xbox Series X. https://www.unrealengine.com/ ... @aarongreenberg : Super impressive and can only imagine what the new Unreal 5 Engine will look like on the world's most powerful console. #XGonGiveItToYa 🙌🏻🙅🏼 ♂️🔥 https://twitter.com/... Kynan Pearson / @kynanpearson : UE5 has me thinking about the impact this will have on Voxels, Sprites, Point Clouds, Splat maps and flat shaded games. I think this will be huge for stylized games too. Can't wait https://twitter.com/... Robin Hanson / @robinhanson : So if I get a Playstation 5 next year, I can play games that look and sound this good. And I probably would. A lot. At the expense of all my other goals. I can look down this game tree, but don't like what I see. https://www.theverge.com/... Peter Cohen / @flargh : The new Unreal Engine's lighting functions are astonishing. https://www.eurogamer.net/... Hunter / @nextgenplayer : Digital Foundry calls today's PS5 tech demo “enormously exciting” and says it's: “a genuine generational leap that must be seen to be believed” https://www.eurogamer.net/... Seith / @seithcg : That's mind boggling: “Hardware accelerated ray tracing [was] not a part of the PS5 tech demo revealed today”. So does that means it's mostly a software dynamic GI, purely based on their temporal magic (maybe like Crytek's)?! That's super exciting! https://www.eurogamer.net/... @doom49 : Well there it is! UNREAL ENGINE 5 is literally making RTX ray tracing unneeded. https://www.youtube.com/... Brian Tong / @briantong : Now THAT'S Next-Gen. DAMN! #UnrealEngine5 https://www.youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/... Geoff Keighley / @geoffkeighley : Epic Games' Kim Libreri confirms that the new Unreal Engine 5 demo is actual live game code you can play on a PlayStation 5 development system. https://twitter.com/... @videotech_ : Fortnite will migrate to Unreal Engine 5 in 2021. https://www.eurogamer.net/... @smetaldave64 : Remember last year when I said to not sleep on Quixel's addition of Megascans to the UE library for developers for Next Gen? Now you can see why I said that. Quixel's Megascans are indeed being used on Unreal Engine 5 in this demo for PS5/Next Gen. https://www.eurogamer.net/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... @swiftonsecurity : Samaritan was 9 years ago. It required 10x the power of a then-current console. It's been awhile since I've been really impressed by a real-time demo. This is truly next-gen capability. https://twitter.com/... Kevin Rose / @kevinrose : after watching this demo, I have little doubt we're living in a simulation... imagine this technology 25/50/100 years from now coupled with artificial intelligence... cc: @elonmusk @joerogan https://www.theverge.com/... Alex Tumay / @alextumay : Been fooled by demos too many times https://twitter.com/... Rod Breslau / @slasher : your move, Valve @jaymcastello : Tim Sweeney going “the state of the world is a little bit broken right now” and me being like. right. there's a pandemic. maybe even the rise of fascism. and then him being like “if you look at the app store there are so many games” Nibel / @nibellion : Unreal Engine 5 details - can use movie assets that consist of hundreds of millions or billions of polygons - new dynamic GI solution called Lumen - no LODs or pop-ins - Out in 2021, supports current-gen and next-gen devices + iOS, Android, Mac and PC https://www.unrealengine.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Miraculous Maku / @redmakuzawa : Even if that was just an example of what Unreal Engine 5 can do, I think it was smart that Sony teamed up with Epic to present it on PlayStation 5. It was gameplay tech demo recorded on the console. Xbox honestly should have done something similar to show capability of Series X. https://twitter.com/... Geoff Keighley / @geoffkeighley : This. Is. PlayStation 5. In Real Time. And it's gameplay of a new demo created by @epicgames https://twitter.com/...